A scheming, fiercely possessive, puppy-like prince VS a peacock princess who is looks-obsessed, admires the strong, and has almost no self-control. Two-year age gap, older woman/younger man. He has secretly loved her since childhood, and he’s a twisted, mad dog who pretends to be obedient and lets her claim him. (Fully written in advance, updates daily at 9 p.m.)
Chen Jinzhen, daughter of the Grand Princess, was originally supposed to marry the Crown Prince. But after he was convicted of a crime, she became an aging unmarried member of the imperial clan. By imperial decree, she was married off to Prince Yu, Qi Che, who was two years younger. Rumor had it that he was undefeated in battle, with a kind face and a ruthless heart.
Chen Jinzhen detested the match and treated it as a transaction, laying down three conditions: once their goal was achieved, they would divorce and owe each other nothing.
On the eve of the wedding, she even used Qi Che to rescue her former fiancé, then landed her current fiancé in the imperial prison. She thought she’d outplayed him, never realizing that this man never made a deal at a loss.
On their wedding night, Qi Che pinned her beneath him. “Sister, you don’t intend to stay chaste for him, do you?”
They had agreed to divorce before the wedding, but after they married, he promptly denied ever agreeing to it. Chen Jinzhen mocked him and treated him coldly, and he took it all in stride, turning it into passion beneath the red bed curtains. That is, until the Crown Prince, long presumed dead, returned…
Chen Jinzhen demanded that Qi Che write her a divorce agreement.
Qi Che gave a wicked, cold laugh. “You’re still thinking about him?”
Chen Jinzhen rose gracefully from the bed, her pale hand straightening her gauzy robe. She lifted a delicate brow. “We agreed to divorce before we married.”
Qi Che tore off his disguise and imprisoned her at his estate outside the capital. That night, he fastened a golden chain around her ankle. “Lately, I’ve been wondering if I pretended to be obedient for too long, and made you think I was a dog you kept!”
At last, his madness came out in the open. “I want you to admit, in your own words, that you love me. Otherwise, you’ll never set foot outside this estate again!”
Qi Che, the Emperor’s ninth son, was neither the eldest nor born of the empress. His father never cared for him, and his mother showed him no affection. He was bullied constantly in the palace. Then one day, a young lady as lovely as a peony stepped in front of him. “Don’t you dare bully him!”
She comforted him, too. “From now on, I’ll come to the palace every day to protect you. No one will ever bully you again.”
Four-year-old Qi Che waited a whole day. She never came. He waited a year. She never came. Then, in the tenth year, he received the news that she was betrothed to his elder brother, the Crown Prince.
Qi Che began plotting how to take her back from his brother. He went off to war, fought and killed, earned a string of military honors, and struck a bargain with his aunt…
At last, she belonged to him.
But she seemed to hate him. After they married, she pushed him toward another woman to protect the deposed Crown Prince’s sister… even as she spent the nights making love to him, she forced him to drink contraceptive medicine.
He endured all of it, as long as she would have him.
Until the deposed Crown Prince returned to the capital and launched a rebellion, and she demanded a divorce. Qi Che finally understood: if he kept yielding and indulging her, she would treat him like a dog she could call over or send away whenever she pleased.
He should lock her up, so she could see no one but him and love no one but him. The wind picked up in the mountains that night. He gripped her wrist as the golden chain swung wildly. “Say it. Say you love me…”
A marriage that turns to love, rekindled romance, and the story of raising a dog
Theme: Working together to build a future
